iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 7h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 23h

Applications are now open for the UC President's Postdoc Fellowship Reach out if you want to submit an applicaiton focused on environmental/soil sciences, biogeochemistry, climate change, & related areas As a former fellow, this is a program I highly recommend 4 ECRs interested in academic careers

screenshot of the call for applications for the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship program

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 29/09/2026

Oh, that weird dream where I discussed with Claire Danes how great it is that Alan Ritchson is the next James Bond.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 29/09/2026

We are almost in the window where I swear off social media and most news sites before the midterm elections.

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The Simpsons: Just Don't Look Song

ALT: The Simpsons: Just Don't Look Song

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 29/09/2026

There should be a losers bracket where the team that loses each game moves on until the worst loser is crowned. Not sure what the incentive might be other than more box office and an opportunity for a cruel god to mock you further.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 27/09/2026

A slab graveyard is all well and good but I think viscous death is a much creepier thing. xkcd.com/3303/ @xkcd.com

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Slab Graveyard

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Laura Hollister @xenolith.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I guess my biggest Takeaway is that there is no software or curriculum that you can purchase they can do anything better than well trained teachers. Invest the time and money needed to help Ts understand how students learn subjects and how to teach them those subjects and you will see improvement.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 27/09/2026

Monster is R.E.M.'s best album. Don't you dare @ me.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 25/09/2026

NBC News' Claudio Lavanga asked Pope Leo if he had anything to do with Chicago White Sox 'miraculous' historic ride to the playoffs during the pope's flight to Paris.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 25/09/2026

You gotta admit, the shade thrown by the photographer and editors of Bill Buckner's 1990 Upper Deck card is epic.

Bill Buckner 1990 Upper Deck baseball card with a pipe between his legs.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 24/09/2026

It has been a bit, but #244 on my list of my favorite 250 albums is Green Day's Dookie. I sometimes think it might have been the most influential rock album of the 1990s. intellectualthicket.wordpress.com/2026/09/24/2...

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244. Dookie by Green Day

Green Day: Dookie (Reprise, 1994) Sometimes you just miss being part of history. That can be a good thing or a bad thing. I missed seeing Barry Bonds record setting home run by a game. I flew acros…

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 24/09/2026

Oh yes, and congratulations to Dawn Sumner at UC Davis for being named an AGU Fellow. Absolutely, 100% deserved.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 24/09/2026

So, hey, congratulations to the wonderful Laura Guertin on winning the AGU Excellence in Earth and Space Science Education Award! www.agu.org/honors-home/...

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2026 Union Medals, Awards, and Prizes recipients | AGU

Congratulations to the 2026 union medals, awards, and prize recipients.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 24/09/2026

Finally read that "what if Yellowstone erupted now" piece on the Conversation. I have to admit, it was not impressed.

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Stargate SG-1: I am not fond of this

ALT: Stargate SG-1: I am not fond of this

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 24/09/2026

I've said this before and recently at that: I do not want a world where the humans doing things humanly have to prove they did not use spicy autocorrect. All AI products should carry a warning like a carton of cigarettes.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/09/2026

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Ryan North @ryannorth.ca · 23/09/2026

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

Picture of the streets of Pompeii, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pompei_-_panoramio_(26).jpg. Taken by Tanya Dedyukhina, used under CC

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Privatize the gains and socialize the apocalypse.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 23/09/2026

Sure, this article says that Season 2 @kentremendous.bsky.social's brilliant "A Man on the Inside" wasn't as well liked as Season 1. However, I venture to say that Season 2 was absolutely adored by the coveted "faculty at small liberal arts college" demographic. [Trust me, it's great].

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 23/09/2026

We watched the great documentary "Fireball" for my Geology of the Solar System class ... which, of course, means that my internal monologue will sound like Werner Herzog for the rest of the day.

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Werner Herzog: I Would Like To See The Baby

ALT: Werner Herzog: I Would Like To See The Baby

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felinecannonball @felinecannon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Couldn't find the graph I wanted at the energy information agency, so I made one. Appears they are scraping the bottom of the barrel with the strategic petroleum reserve and may stop short of drawing down to the statutory minimum reserve due to engineering issues. www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/his...

chart showing reserves and withdrawals from the SPR. Statuatory minimum reserve is 252 million barrels. Practical engineering limit is 250-300 million barrels. Reserves as of 9/11 were 284 million barrels.

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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My dear friend @seislologist.bsky.social has launched a cool new earthquake app called Seismoscope! It’s fantastic for visualizations but has lots of other functionality as well. Check it out! (It’s free and available on iPhone and Android) apps.apple.com/us/app/seism...

Map of North and South America showing the location of earthquakes marked by symbols with different shapes and colors

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 18/09/2026

"You know what, let's leave it up the companies to decide how much shielding and monitoring the nuclear reactors need. What could possibly go wrong?"

Slashdot headline: "Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could 'Kill All Humans'. But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company "

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 18/09/2026

Folks, we do not need 10,000 different apps for every school organization to communicate with me and/or my kids. Email was invented to send messages to people. I don't want to download and register for all these terrible services.

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Simpsons Old Man Yells at Cloud

ALT: Simpsons Old Man Yells at Cloud

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huck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

god this is good

flight of the concords scene with murray, brit and jemaine.

"How's this, then? Ed Sheeran, beloved by all, left without an opening band at present. Enter you two."

"What if we want a free Palestine, Murray?"

"I reckon you'll get lots of things for free when you're proper rockstars. This might be your ticket."

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Stormrider @kwh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Huliau means ‘turning point’ or ‘time of change’ in Hawaiian. Kilauea 🌋 volcano may be undergoing such a transition in its behavior now, as explained by NPS based on data from USGS HVO and others (links to follow👇🧵). Read more about the meaning of this word: www.hawaii.edu/news/2026/02...

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Hawaiian Word of the Week: Huliau | University of Hawaiʻi System News

Huliau—Turning point, a time of change.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 16/09/2026

Don't mind me, I'm just catching up on 5 decades of Australian rock/modern rock/indie rock.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 16/09/2026

Folks, let me tell you, comets are weird.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 15/09/2026

I mean, I wasn't planning to apply for NSF funding but yeah, the prognosis isn't good for the type of projects NSF used to fund.

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Futurama: Farnsworth in the Angry Dome

ALT: Futurama: Farnsworth in the Angry Dome

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...

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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats

Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 12/09/2026

I guess that's enough yelling online for a Saturday, here's a meme. I'm going go gambol in the fields and frolic in the buttercups or some shit.

a scene of someone pitching a tent near a vista, caption reads:
Treat your body like a data center
consume as much water and literature as possible
upset local city councils with your existence

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 13/09/2026

I know everyone in Ohio is talking about the late game drama yesterday and they are right - Middlesborough stoppage time goal for the win against Norwich City was great!

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 12/09/2026

Am I the only one who thinks debates are, well, old-fashioned?

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Alan Miller @amiller78.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ohio incurred $11 billion in tariff costs from January 2025 through the second quarter of 2026, or about $2,274 per household. Report says the figures reflect "tariffs imposed by presidential action on top of regular statutory tariffs" www.dispatch.com/story/money/... via @DispatchAlerts

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Ohio's tariff bill is one of the highest in the US

A new ranking places Ohio among the top 10 states that pay the most in tariffs.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 11/09/2026

My two Denison summer research students presented their research yesterday. Lots of good stuff on Bench Mark Butte in Oregon and the composition of quartz in Ohio sandstones (note: one student is in Rome, so her poster was there but not her!)

Carolyn's summer research poster on the Black Hand Sandstone of central Ohio.

Holly presenting her posted on the mineral geochemistry of Bench Mark Butte in Oregon.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 10/09/2026

When nuclear weapons were perceived as an apocalypse level threat, treaties were written, very few people were given the ability to use/launch them and safeguards were put into place.

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David Tennant: You Can't Tell Me You Don't Remember

ALT: David Tennant: You Can't Tell Me You Don't Remember

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 08/09/2026

If you missed it yesterday, I wrote up a summary of the situation at Anak Krakatau with some context. Remember, Indonesia is a very volcanically active country and Anak Krakatau is a highly active volcano. eruptions.site/2026/09/07/s...

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September 2026 Eruption at Anak Krakatau

Location: Anak Krakatau, Indonesia Situation: Anak Krakatau, literally “child of Krakatau” has had some large explosive eruptions over the past week including ash plumes that reached ~5…

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 08/09/2026

I was a Little League umpire. Do with this as you will.

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 07/09/2026

It has been a while, but I have a summary of all the activity at Anak Krakatau over the last few days. Long and short: big explosive eruption, but not out of character for the volcano (or Indonesian volcanoes for that matter). It is a hot air travel mess, though: eruptions.site/2026/09/07/s...

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September 2026 Eruption at Anak Krakatau

Location: Anak Krakatau, Indonesia Situation: Anak Krakatau, literally “child of Krakatau” has had some large explosive eruptions over the past week including ash plumes that reached ~5…

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Dr. Erik Klemetti Gonzalez @eruptions.site · 07/09/2026

Nice sunspots on today's solar observation in my Geology of the Solar System class at Denison.

Image of the Sun on September 7, 2026 taken on a Seestar S30 in Granville, OH.

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